Battle Quote by Peter Medawar

What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.

— Lion Feuchtwanger

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

— James Henry Breasted

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

— Edward Hallett Carr

If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and work of…

— Archibald Geikie

The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter.

— Edwin Boring

History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which…

— Thomas Kuhn

History is a science, no more and no less.

— J. B. Bury

I tend to think history is more a branch of literature than science.

— Margaret MacMillan

Historical science is not worse, more restricted, or less capable of achieving firm conclusions because experiment, prediction, and subsumption under invariant laws of nature…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up; many are…

— Peter Medawar